NIGERIA’S national football team, the Super Eagles, have announced they will boycott their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Libya after being stranded at a Libyan airport for over 12 hours without food, water, or transport. The incident occurred after their…
South Africa has selected Muneera Sallies’ drama Old Righteous Blues as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards, the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) has announced. The film is among the final entries revealed…
HPX has congratulated President Joseph Boakai on issuing Executive Order No. 136, which establishes Liberia’s National Railway Authority. The order, signed on October 10, demonstrates Liberia’s commitment to developing nationally owned rail infrastructure accessible to multiple users under a…
UGANDA has signed a landmark agreement with Turkish construction firm Yapi Merkezi to build a 272-kilometre railway, marking a significant development in East Africa’s transport infrastructure. The deal, aimed at improving both speed and cargo capacity, will strengthen Uganda’s trade…
THE World Bank has revised its economic growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa, lowering it from 3.4 percent to 3 percent for this year, primarily due to the devastating impact of Sudan’s ongoing civil war. Despite this, growth is expected to…
PRESIDENT of the Libyan Football Federation, Abdelhakim Al-Shalmani, has resigned from his position. Al-Shalmani stepped down from his position during a regular meeting of the Federation’s General Assembly. The Libya Observer, an English and Arabic online newspaper based in Tripoli,…
THE Confederation of African Football (CAF) says it has launched an investigation into the “disturbing” treatment of Nigeria’s Super Eagles at the Al Abraq airport in Libya. The continental football governing body in an official statement on Monday said it…
THE European Union (EU) on Monday expressed concern about the recent escalation along the Lebanon-Israel border area and the Israeli attacks against UN peacekeepers. “Such attacks against UN peacekeepers constitute a grave violation of international law and are totally unacceptable.…
PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said that North Korea has sent soldiers as well as weapons to support Russia in its fight against neighbouring Ukraine. “We see an increasing alliance between Russia and regimes like North Korea. “This is no…
INTRODUCTION The first part of this treatise commenced appropriately enough with a diagnosis of the problem, with an analysis of how we ‘lost it’ after which we considered the depth of the challenge, the critical situation which presently confronts…
